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The 2023 Florida Statutes (including Special Session C)

Title XXXVII
INSURANCE
Chapter 624
INSURANCE CODE: ADMINISTRATION AND GENERAL PROVISIONS
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F.S. 624.423
624.423 Serving process.
(1) Service of process upon the Chief Financial Officer as process agent of the insurer under s. 624.422 and s. 626.937 shall be made electronically as provided in s. 48.151(3). Upon receiving such service, the Chief Financial Officer shall retain a record of the process and promptly notify and make the process available through the department’s secure online portal, as provided under s. 624.307(9), to the person last designated by the insurer to receive the same, as provided under s. 624.422(2). For purposes of this section, records shall be retained electronically.
(2) If process is served upon the Chief Financial Officer as an insurer’s process agent, the insurer is not required to answer or plead except within 20 days after the date upon which the Chief Financial Officer sends or makes available by other verifiable means a copy of the process served upon her or him as required by subsection (1).
(3) Process served upon the Chief Financial Officer and sent or made available in accordance with this section and s. 624.307(9) shall for all purposes constitute valid and binding service thereof upon the insurer.
History.s. 67, ch. 59-205; ss. 13, 35, ch. 69-106; s. 3, ch. 76-168; s. 1, ch. 77-457; ss. 2, 3, ch. 81-318; ss. 64, 809(1st), ch. 82-243; ss. 187, 188, ch. 91-108; s. 4, ch. 91-429; s. 185, ch. 97-102; s. 802, ch. 2003-261; s. 7, ch. 2011-159; s. 11, ch. 2016-132; s. 25, ch. 2022-138.

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Arrestable Offenses / Crimes under Fla. Stat. 624.423
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MARKOVITS, v. STATE FARM MUTUAL AUTOMOBILE INSURANCE COMPANY,, 235 So. 3d 1018 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 2018)

. . . See §§ 48.151, 624.422, 624.423, Fla. Stat. (2014). . . . See § 624.423(1), Fla. Stat. . . . While State Farm points to section 624.423, which, states, (3) Process served upon the. . . . At the time, the Insurance Commissioner was the statutory agent under sections 48.151, 624.422, and 624.423 . . .

PRESCOTT ARCHITECTS, INC. v. LEXINGTON INSURANCE COMPANY,, 638 F. Supp. 2d 1317 (N.D. Fla. 2009)

. . . surplus lines insurance contract issued by it ... pursuant to the same procedure as is provided in [§ ] 624.423 . . . that if the FAA invalidated § 626.937, concerning unauthorized insurers, it would also invalidate § 624.423 . . . , supra note 15, because § 626.937 specifically incorporates § 624.423’s means for serving process on . . . surplus lines insurance contract issued by it ... pursuant to the same procedure as is provided in [§ ] 624.423 . . . Stat. § 624.423(1) provides for service of process on an authorized insurance company’s chief financial . . .

CENTEX- RODGERS CONSTRUCTION COMPANY, a St. v. HENSEL PHELPS CONSTRUCTION CO. a k a d b a a, 591 So. 2d 1117 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 1992)

. . . service of process sections applicable to the instant jurisdictional question are sections 624.422 and 624.423 . . . method of service of process upon an authorized domestic, foreign, or alien insurer in this state. 624.423 . . . The plain meaning of the language of sections 624.422 and 624.423 indicates that service of process is . . .

KEPHART, v. PICKENS a, 271 So. 2d 163 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 1972)

. . . this state, and such service is valid and binding if the provisions of Florida Statutes §§ 624.422, 624.423 . . .